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\VILLIAM II. SALADEE, OF BEDFORD, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH \V. PRUITT, OF SAME PLACE.

HAND-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,615, dated April 21, 1896. Application filed February 19, 1896. Serial No. 579,910. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. SALADEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at- Bedford, in the county of Lawrence and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Hand-Car, of which the following is a speci- .fication.

The invention relates to improvements in hand-cars.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of hand-cars and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of being easily propelled and adapted to be driven at a high rate of speed.

The invention consists of the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva tion of a hand-car constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. i is a detail view of the op crating-lever.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a hand-car frame of any desired construction, provided with bearings receiving axles 2, having car-wheels 3 fixed to their ends in the usual manner. One of the axles carries a pinion 4, which meshes with a gear-wheel 5, fixed to a crank-shaft 6, that is journaled in suitable bearings of the handcar frame, and the crank-bend of the shaft 6 is connected with the lower end of a pitman 7, which extends upward to an oscillating segmental gear-wheel 8. The segmental gearwheel 8 is mounted on a transverse shaft, which is j ournaled in a supporting-frame 9, mounted on the handcar and being substantially pyramidal. The supporting-frame 1) has closed ends, and is provided with cornerposts 10, connected at their upper ends at the sides of the supporting-framc by sectional bearings 11 and at an intermediate point by horizontal bars 12, carrying sectional bearings 13. The sectional bearings 13 are socured to the horizontal bars 12 by bolts and receive a transverse shaft 14, on which the segmental gear-wheel 8 is mounted. The segmental gear-wheel S is rocked or oscillated by a similar gear-wheel 15, mounted on a transverse shaft 16, which is journaled in the top bearings 11. The upper end of the pitman 7 is pivoted to a solid portion 17 of the gearwheel 8. The latter is of sufficient diameter to rotate the gear-wheel 6 by its oscillations. The upper segmental gear is provided at opposite sides with solid portions 18, having their outer faces flush with the side faces of the gear-wheel and receiving an operatinglever 19, provided with a central longitudinal opening 20 to receive the gear-wheel 18. The operating-lever is provided at its ends with handles, and it has at an intermediate point a removable section 2-1, recessed intermediate of its ends to correspond with a similar rccessed portion of the body of the operatinglever to provide the opening 20 and having its ends bolted or otherwise secured to the body of the lever with its outer face flush with the same.

The hand-car is operated by oscillating the operating-lever, and a rotary motion will be communicated to the lower gear-wheels, and the hand-car may be driven at a high rate of speed without much labor.

It will be seen that the hand-car is exceedin gly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is capable of convenient operation, and that the gearing may be readily applied to the ordinary hand-car and will enable the same to be driven at a high rate of speed at the expenditure of a minimum amount of labor.

\V hat I claim is- In a hand-car, the combination with a frame and car-wheels supporting the frame, of a supporting-frame mounted on the hand-ear frame and provided at its corners with posts, bearings at the upper ends of the posts and located at the sides of the supporting-frame, a lower segmental gear-wheel jonrnaled in the supporting-frame, a transverse shaft mounted in the sectional bearings, and an upper segmental gear-wheel mounted oh the said shaft and meshing with the lower segmental gearwheel, an operating-handle provided with a IOO 10 gearing for connecting the lower end of the pitman with the car-Wheels for rotating the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIAM H. SALADEE.

\Vitnesses:

ECKLESS A. POWELL, WILLIAM F. BROOKS. 

